Lectio magistralis by Luciano Violante (President of Futuri Probabili - Associazione per la Formazione del Capitale Umano).
The event focuses on the concept of "domicide", a term coined by Balakrishnan Rajagopal—MIT professor and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to housing—to describe the systematic targeting of homes and civilian infrastructure, a pattern now recurring across the globe, from Myanmar to Gaza to Ukraine. This is not merely the destruction of one or more buildings, an all-too-common feature of warfare throughout history. Rather, it is the deliberate, methodical eradication of all dwellings, schools, universities, and hospitals, with the aim of stripping a people of both their identity and their means of survival. Domicide is emblematic of modern warfare, and it is frequently accompanied by genocide and the indiscriminate killing of civilians. (Luciano Violante, Corriere della Sera, Siamo ormai nell’epoca del «domicidio», 18th January, 2025).
Carlo Ratti (Curator of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition) will attend and give a short speech.
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco (President of La Biennale di Venezia) will greet participants.
